Hunger in America 2010 Local Report Prepared for The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania

This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network.
Key Findings:

The FA system served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania provides emergency food for an estimated 72,600 different people annually.

30% of the members of households served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2).

23% of households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1).

Among households with children, 80% are food insecure and 32% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1).

34% of clients served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1).

29% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1).

28% of households served by The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)

The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania included approximately 218 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 172 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 127 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter.

78% of pantries, 44% of kitchens, and 35% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1).

Among programs that existed in 2006, 80% of pantries, 52% of kitchens, and 57% of shelters of The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1).

Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 83% of the food distributed by pantries, 42% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 52% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1).

As many as 93% of pantries, 85% of kitchens, and 71% of shelters in The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).

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